WaPo: “In September 1957, nine Black Arkansas teenagers entered the all-White Little Rock Central High School in an episode that became iconic in the civil rights movement. The teens were part of school integration efforts that followed the 1954 Supreme Court Brown v. Board of Education ruling, which declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. But in Little Rock, Gov. Orval Faubus (D) ordered the Arkansas National Guard to block the African American teens from entering the school. It took then-President Dwight D. Eisenhower (R) federalizing the National Guard and sending in U.S. Army troops to ensure that the teenagers could attend classes regularly at Central High.
Now five of the Little Rock Nine are speaking out, in the post below, about actions taken by Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) and the state legislature to restrict what students can learn about Black history.”